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• Production of Seedlings


  Produce healthier, more uniform and vigorous crops
• Transplant


  Move a fully germinated seedlings and replant it in a permanent location
• Fertilizer application


  Supply one or more nutrients needed for growing plants
• Pest Control


  Regulate or manage the pests that impacts adversely on farm activities
• Irrigation


  Supply controlled amount of water at needed interval
• Weeding


  Remove unwanted plants in the grounds that may compete with the crop for space, water and nutrients
• Harvesting


  Gather a ripe crop from the fields
• Hauling of harvest products


  Move the cut crop from threshing location to drying, storing facilities or to the market
• Farm inputs


  The resources that will used in farm production
• Farm labor


  The services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entrepreneurs for profits
• Farm labor


  • One of the important inputs in agricultural production
• Labor Requirements for Land Preparation

  1. Plowing to loosen or turn the soil before sowing seed or planting using tractor or animals

  2. Clearing of the land using hoe to remove the native vegetation for agricultural purposes

  3. Harrowing using hand tractor to pulverize soil, break-up crop residues, uproot weeds, and cover seeds

  4. Preparation of furrow to create in soil for water to flow

  5. Trellis preparation to support and display climbing plants especially shrubs

  6. Mulching to cover the soil between plants with layer of material to prevent water evaporation, protect from wind, rain, and sun and suppress weed growth

  7. Digging holes to reduce the need for labor during the actual planting
• Rotavator


  An implement attached to a tractor and used for tilling and pulverizing the soil
• Common Farm Equipment

  • Hand tractor
  • Four-wheel tractor
  • Water pumps
• Hand tractor


  Used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land
• Four-wheel tractor


  Used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much bigger area of land
• Water pumps


  Used to draw irrigation water from a source
• Sickle


  A hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for cutting weeds
• Farm implements


  • Plows
  • Harrow
• Plows


  Farm implements used in horticultural operations, either pulled by a working animal or a tractor, for tilling large areas, making furrows and inter-row cultivation
• Plows

  • Native plow
  • Disc plow
• Harrow


  Used for tilling and pulverizing the soil
• Harrow


  • Native wooden harrow
  • Disc harrow
• Pruning shears


  For cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants
• Axe


  For cutting bigger size post
• Knife


  For cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in horticulture
• Sprinklers


  Used for watering seedlings and young plants
• Water pails


  Used for hauling water, manure and fertilizers
• Sprayers


  For spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides
• Wheelbarrow


  Used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and other equipment
• Spade


  Used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches, and mixing soil media
• Shovel


  Used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and for mixing soil media
• Rake


  Used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil
• Spading fork


  Used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and turning over the materials in a compost heap
• Light hoe


  Used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting
• Hand trowel


  Used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil
• Hand cultivator


  Used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing weeds around the plant
• Hand fork


  Used for inter row cultivation
• Bolo


  Used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees
• Crowbar


  Used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps